Word: episcopalianism
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...Edward Gorey was born in Chicago in 1925, to a Roman Catholic newspaper report and Episcopalian mother. He began to read and draw at a very early age; he first picked up a pencil at only 18 months, drawing passing trains. But he told the Christian Science Monitor that he was not quite impressed by those drawings...
First, a little background. In 1898, Nannie Noble established the William Belden Noble Lecture Series in honor of her late husband, a much-loved Episcopalian who had been a standout Harvard College student and who was studying for the ministry. The purpose? "[T]o continue the work of William Belden Noble, whose supreme desire was to extend the influence of Jesus as 'the Way, and the Truth and the Life,' and to make known the meaning of His words, 'I am come that they might have Life, and that they might have it more abundantly...
During the first half of the century, the American elite was a distinct, quasi-hereditary group whose members were all men, all white and almost all Protestant (quite often Episcopalian). They lived mainly along the Eastern Seaboard. They had gone to Ivy League colleges, and often, before that, to boarding schools in New England. They belonged to the same clubs, lived in the same suburbs and vacationed at the same resorts. They dressed, spoke and looked a certain way. They were of English or Scotch-Irish stock. Exemplified by Henry Stimson, who served as both Secretary of State and Secretary...
They were more than a little surprised when they discovered that John Blum, their new member, was Episcopalian. It was not until the second half of the 20th century that the Corporation actually included a Jewish Fellow--former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky...
...Harper's interests extend well beyond law. As an Episcopalian, he said he is interested in the Divinity School and visited its library several times when he was a student...